Following up on last week’s Con Daily post, I went poking through the Dodger history books and found a couple of other fellows of similar extraction.
Tom Daly was with the Brooklyn Superbas from 1890-1901, which would have meant a few years of overlap with Con Daily on the same team. Tom played all over the field, mostly at 2B.
Jud Daley was a outfielder who played for Brooklyn for two seasons, 1911 and 1912.
While there are plenty of guys named Daley or Dailey or Daily or Daly or even Dayley and Dealy, there have not been any Daeleys in the bigs.
Scott Daeley, who I believe is a semi-distant cousin of mine, was drafted by the Giants (oh the shame! ;) in 1999, and had a couple of seasons in their organization — mostly in San Jose.
Tangentially, while researching this post, I came across the awesomely named Flame Delhi, who pitched for three innings for the White Sox in 1912. According to the Arizona SABR chapter, Flame was the first big leaguer from Arizona.
In the spring of 1912, Arizona was still growing up. After all, the former territory had only gained statehood in February and most of the country still thought of Arizona as the untamed Wild West. It’s not surprising that on April 16th the first major league appearance by Flame Delhi, a rookie pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, went largely unnoticed. It probably wasn’t even noted in any newspaper that Delhi was the first-born Arizonan to play big league baseball. Born in the mining town of Harqua Hala in 1892, Delhi had come up through the ranks of the Pacific Coast League and was getting his chance with the White Sox. The headlines of the Chicago newspapers on April 16th were dominated by the sinking of the Titanic which had gone down just a day earlier.